Mr. Prime Minister, during the last electoral campaign, you identified as an absolute priority to put an end to this pandemic which has held us hostage for eighteen months, a commitment which was reiterated during the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the first session of the 44e legislature of parliament.
This is a very laudable goal, and you have the support of a vast majority of Canadians on this issue.
But now the Omicron variant comes to complicate matters and prove to us that the measures and strategies adopted so far only partially work.
The new border closure to travelers from certain countries will buy time, but not much more.
We risk plunging into an endless succession of waves with their share of physical and psychological distress, accompanied by economic upheavals that will accentuate poverty and violence on a global scale.
We also risk reliving the scenario of the AIDS pandemic of the 1990s, when, after the development of triple therapy, the drugs were in the north and the majority of patients were in the south.
The entire planet is at war with COVID-19 and its many variants, and it is clear that, so far, the enemy has the upper hand.
Why is this so? Individualism, a facade of solidarity, the apathy of the great fortunes of this world, as well as the absence of planetary coordination and mobilization are undoubtedly the main causes.
Play the role of leader
After the Second World War, Canada, under the leadership of Lester B. Pearson, played a leading role on a global scale by taking concrete actions in favor of peace and collaboration between nations. .
Today, why can we not once again play a role of leader and unifier in the face of the current threat?
Let us have the courage of utopia.
What I propose is that Canada develop and then propose an ambitious and precise plan which mobilizes all the living forces and the powerful of this world towards the same objective, and that this proposal be debated during a plenary session of emergency at the United Nations.
If the richest countries, united in the G20, and the greatest fortunes of this world, such as Bezos, Branson, Musk, Soros and company, agreed to invest the necessary funds and mobilize significant strategic resources, in order to allow the rapid vaccination of all citizens of the world with effective and rapidly adaptable vaccines such as messenger RNA, our chances of winning, or at least regaining control, would be greatly increased.
This peace mission should be carried out like a military campaign.
It is this paradox that will allow us to achieve victory.
Such solidarity, if it materializes, could also teach us to collaborate better in the face of the other challenges that we all have to face and that you know well.
Otherwise, what is the point of spending a fortune to equip ourselves with transcontinental missiles, fighter planes and rockets that allow us to go for ten minutes in space, if we are unable to fly to the aid of those who do not. do not have the means that we have.
Mr. Prime Minister: “You may say I’m a dreamer”, but I know that despite the vicissitudes of politics in which you have been immersed for several years, you have this fiber within you.